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Young said: "I can't wait to sit and listen to the dawn chorus as it sweeps across the world.

"It is nature's true essence of music and I am genuinely thrilled to be a part of it."

Radio 4 has organised the event as part of International Dawn Chorus day, a broadcast hosted by Derek Mooney from RTE radio in Ireland, in which radio stations across Europe join together to track the rising sun across the continent from Moscow to Dublin.